Lusia "Lucy" Harris, a star in women s collegiate basketball during the 1970s and the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by an NBA team, died Tuesday, according
Harris scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history and was the first Black woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, among other accolades. She turned the NBA down in 1977.
The 6 ft 3 in player was selected by the New Orleans Jazz, which would later move to Utah, in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA draft , ahead of 33 male players. She turned down the offer.
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Harris scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history and was the first Black woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, among other accolades. She turned the NBA down in 1977.